Glaciologist - biogeochemist - sedimentologist - avid mapper at Northumbria University, UK ❄️ She/Her
Currently working on: Biogeochemical cycles beneath the GrIS
https://rebeccamccerery.wixsite.com/website
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Our new paper is out in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social finally wrapping up a 2022 Svalbard season! Looking at microbial communities in different landforms and glacier types. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Peruvian scientist, conservationist, and National Geographic Explorer, Dr Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, will give a public lecture about her work in the Amazon Rainforest.
📅 13 May 2025
⌚ 5.30pm - 6.30pm
📍 City Campus East, Northumbria University, Newcastle
💡 Discover more and register FREE here:
We have a new preprint out reviewing the monitoring & detection of Svalbard surging glaciers: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
We also compiled a new database of Svalbard's surge-type glaciers: zenodo.org/records/1524...
@dannipearce.bsky.social @hazlovell.bsky.social @adrianluckman.bsky.social
Becky McCerery
Northumbria University
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧🪶
Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎
Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎
In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I have worked with the Global Glacier Casualty list to add two new stories this week on Darwin Glacier, Sierra Nevada of California and Ice Worm Glacier, North Cascades, Washington. Darwin Glacier was lost in 2022 and Ice Wrom Glacier in 2023.
glaciercasualtylist.rice.edu
📣 The #Goldschmidt2025 conference program is now available! The schedule of sessions & presentations is now online.
To plan your week, browse the program by theme: buff.ly/1zvFrpU
or per day: buff.ly/8RQwc8M
Remember the presenter & early registration deadline is 21 May.
"In daily life I meet people who ask me if the Arctic is actually changing," says Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager for the British Antarctic Survey.
"I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly."
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Will Harcourt
📢 6-month paid Masters internship available with me and @reymourot.bsky.social
Investigating Microbial Dormancy Responses to Stress Cycles in the Cryosphere ❄️🦠🧬😴🌡️
Join us in beautiful Marseille @mioceanologie.bsky.social ☀️🌊⛰️🇫🇷
#ERC_SIESTA
Apply by 15 April
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Link 👇
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/329851
British Antarctic Survey 🐧
James Kirkham
British Antarctic Survey 🐧
Mauri Pelto
James Bradley
Goldschmidt Conference
At the sequence level all glaciers and landforms were different in their biodiversity, only 72/1,268 sequences were detected in >2 samples Microbial richness was similar across all glacier locati...
Massive tabular icebergs broke off of the UK during the last ice age. The widespread break-up of the ice shelves which produced these giant icebergs can be traced to around 18,000 years ago, and likel...
Dormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev...
